COVID-19 “contingency plan,” and has asked the Canadian Red Cross for help with that.COVID-19 hospitalizations in Alberta have risen steadily in recent weeks, as have daily infections, with a total of 504 in hospital on Wednesday, with 97 being treated in ICUs.
Leaked Alberta modelling data projects upwards of 775 COVID-19 hospitalizations by mid-December Health Minister Tyler Shandro said the request for the tent is “not something that’s in our current plan.”But he said officials have reached out to the Red Cross to ask about and negotiate a tent, like the one erected outside the Peter Lougheed Centre in the spring, “if and when we needed it.”“They’ve begun conversations, but this is not part of our current plans, this is conversations.